Cookie Policy
v1.0
Last updated: 26th March 2025
What is a cookie?
A “cookie” is a piece of information that is stored on your computer’s hard drive if you agree to this and which records how you move your way around a website so that, when you revisit that website, it can present tailored options based on the information stored about your last visit. Cookies can also be used to analyse traffic and for advertising and marketing purposes.
Cookies are used by nearly all websites and do not harm your system.
We are required to obtain your consent for all non-essential cookies used on our website. You can block cookies (including essential cookies) at any time by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block essential cookies you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
How do we use cookies?
We use cookies to track your use of our website. This enables us to understand how you use the site and track any patterns with regards how you are using our website. This helps us to develop and improve our website as well as products and / or services in response to what you might need or want.
Cookies are either:
- Session cookies: these are only stored on your computer during your web session and are automatically deleted when you close your browser – they usually store an anonymous session ID allowing you to browse a website without having to log in to each page but they do not collect any personal data from your computer; or
- Persistent cookies: a persistent cookie is stored as a file on your computer and it remains there when you close your web browser. The cookie can be read by the website that created it when you visit that website again. [We use persistent cookies for Google Analytics.]
Cookies can also be categorised as follows:
- Strictly necessary cookies: These cookies are essential to enable you to use the website effectively, such as when buying a product and / or service. Without these cookies, the services available to you on our website cannot be provided. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you have been on the internet.
- Performance cookies: These cookies enable us to monitor and improve the performance of our website. For example, they allow us to count visits, identify traffic sources and see which parts of the site are most popular.
- Functionality cookies: These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced features. For instance, we may be able to provide you with news or updates relevant to the services you use. They may also be used to provide services you have requested such as viewing a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect is usually anonymised.
- Targeting cookies: These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.
- First and third party cookies: First party cookies are cookies set by our website. Third party cookies are cookies on our website that are set by a website other than our website, such as where we have adverts on our website or use Facebook pixels so that we can show you relevant content from us when you are on Facebook.
We use third party cookies on our website and these are set out in the table below
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
Cookie Title Cookie Name | Purpose | Duration |
CSRF Security Token (Edpreciate Platform) csrf_token | This cookie is essential for our site to protect against cross-site request forgery attacks and validate that requests come from legitimate users. | 1 month |
Cloudflare Bot Management Cookie _cf_bm | This cookie is essential for our site to distinguish between human and automated traffic, helping to prevent malicious bot activities. | 1 hour |
Cloudflare Security Clearance cf_clearance | This cookie is essential for our site to confirm you’ve passed security challenges and allow access to our content after verification. | 1 year |
Edpreciate Live Session Cookie edpreciate1_live_u2main | This cookie is essential for our site to maintain your login session and remember your authentication status while using our platform. | 3 days |
Edpreciate Session Signature edpreciate1_live_u2main.sig
| This cookie is essential for our site to verify the integrity of your session information and protect against tampering. | 3 days |
WordPress Guest Token wpr_guest_token | This cookie enables us to recognize you as a guest user and provide a consistent experience before login. | 1 hour |
Cloudflare Unique Visitor ID _cfuvid | This cookie enables us to identify unique visits for security and analytics purposes. | Session |
WordPress Emoji Support wpEmojiSettingsSupports | This cookie enables us to optimize the display of emojis and other visual elements based on your browser capabilities. | Session |
Algolia Search Optimization algoliasearch-client-js | This cookie enables us to speed up your searches and provide more relevant search results through our search functionality. | 1 day |
Google Analytics Cookie | This cookie enables us to estimate our audience size and usage pattern by collecting anonymized data about how visitors use our site. | 2 years |
Google Analytics Additional Parameters
| This cookie enables us to track various dimensions of your visit and interaction with our site, supporting our analytics efforts to understand user behavior patterns and improve site performance. | 2 years |
Google Ads Conversion Linking | This cookie enables us to understand the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns and optimize them based on conversion data. | 3 months |
Edpreciate User Session edpreciate1_u1main | This cookie is essential for our site to store information about your preferences and maintain your user state across the platform. | Session |
DoubleClick Test Cookie test_cookie | This cookie is essential for our site to check if your browser accepts cookies, ensuring our site functions properly. | 15 minutes |
CookieYes Consent Manager cookieyes-consent | This cookie is essential for our site to store your cookie consent preferences and ensure we respect your choices regarding which types of cookies you have allowed or denied. | 1 year |
You can alter your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on manage on our cookie consent mechanism and clicking the sliders to on or off as the case may be. Please refresh your page to ensure that the new settings have taken effect.
You can also control your cookie settings through your web browser.
You can opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, by going to http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after 2 years.
If you have any questions about the cookies that we use, feel free to email us at [email protected].